Encoding race, encoding class : Indian IT workers in Berlin /
Sareeta Amrute.
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: cognitive workers, cognitive bodies -- ENCODING RACE -- Imagining the Indian IT body -- The postracial office -- Proprietary freedoms in an IT office -- ENCODING CLASS -- The stroke of midnight and the spirit of entrepreneurship : a history of the computer in India -- Computers are very stupid cooks : reinventing leisure as a politics of pleasure -- The traveling diaper bag : gifts and jokes as materializing immaterial labor -- A speculative conclusion : secrets and lives.
9780822374275 (e-book)
East Indians--Germany--Berlin. Foreign workers, East Indian--Germany--Berlin. Information technology--Employees.--Germany--Berlin Computer programmers--Germany--Berlin. Computer programmers--India.